The course of professionalization

Jewish nursing in Poland in the interwar period

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4516172
AutoresRakefet Zalashik (University of Edinburgh), Nadav Davidovitch (0000-0001-5709-9265, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume32
Fascículo1
Páginas93-109
Data de publicação2019-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoScience in Context (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s026988971900005x
PMID31124776
OpenAlexW2944860184
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas20

ArgumentThis paper focuses on the Jewish nursing profession in Poland during the interwar period. We argue that the integration of Jewish women in medical activity under the AJDC (American Jewish Distribution Committee) and TOZ (Towarzystwa Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej [the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish People]) emerged in Poland less from the adoption of gender equality and more out of necessity. On the one hand, JDC and TOZ needed Jewish nurses and public health nurses to carry out their health campaigns and build a public health infrastructure. On the other hand, a new generation of Jewish women needed job opportunities that would enable them to make a living and be independent. More broadly this case study shows that the implementation of American "reformative" ideals into the local Polish reality, including in the newly emerging public health field, involved adaptation, negotiation, and in some cases, resentment

Archaeology · Art · Economic history · Interwar period · Judaism · Negotiation · Political science · Professionalization · Public health · Sociology · World War II · Catholicism, Bioethics, Media, Education · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies